Windows 7 Resolving Usable RAM Issue on Windows 7 with 16 GB Installed

Elmer

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• Sep 18, 2011

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Hmm. I've seen where 4gb of RAM on a 64bit system will say only 3.25gb is available. The usual way to sort this is to set Memory Mapping in your bios to enabled.

Quite possibly one of your RAM modules isn't seated properly?

Just a couple of thoughts....

 

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kaos

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• Sep 18, 2011

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go to start
type msconfig
go to boot tab
advanced options
make sure maximum memory is 0 and the tick box above it is UNTICKED
click ok
and ok again
then reboot

 

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Saltgrass

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• Sep 18, 2011

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There is always a chance some of your memory is bad, or as Elmer suggests, not seated and recognized.

If you open Resource Monitor (Task Manager-Performance) and look at the Memory tab, what does the graph along the bottom say as far as what is allocated to what.

 

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tbestenlehner

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• Sep 19, 2011

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hello,
i hope it isn't bad memory. I just got new RAM after two of two sticks tested bad. i RMA'd the two bad sticks and Crucial send me two new sticks of RAM. i tried reseating them and unchecking the boot tab. i haven't tried mapping them yet i'll let yall know how that goes

 

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Saltgrass

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• Sep 19, 2011

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I suppose there is a chance you could have a bad slot on the motherboard.

 

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OldTimer

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• Sep 21, 2011

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JFYI

I just finished replacing 6 bad caps on my own motherboard. When I put the CPU, Ram and all the other stuff back on the board, it refused to boot up. I remembered that had happened to me before, due to two new sticks of Ram that I had installed.

So I took the newest sticks out and the board booted up normally. I cleaned the ram that I had taken out, with Denatured Alcohol and polished up the edge connector real nice. When I put those two ram sticks back in the board, I wiggled them from side to side just a tiny bit to really seat them firmly in their slots. After doing that, my PC now boots up normally and all ram is accounted for.

I've not actually replaced any so called 'bad' ram in many years. It usually fails because it's just dirty. I wash it and put it back and it runs just fine with NO errors.

If I had all the 'bad' ram that people throw away each year, I'd be a millionaire over night.

Just a little Tech-Tip from an old PC tech.

Cheers Mates!

 

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